Poll: Poll Please... Corsa vs Fiesta...?

Which car?

  • Corsa

    Votes: 14 8.0%

  • Fiesta

    Votes: 160 92.0%
  • Total voters
    174
The corsa C is a good starter car. Simple to work on and generally very reliable. They also have galvanised body panels so tend not to rust like Fords. You can get decent spec and mileage ones for under £2k.

The usual Vauxhall hatred will say otherwise but for a first car a Corsa c is a good choice.
 
andythelandy said:
There's so much hate for corsa's on these forums! Yes the ford is a better drive but I doubt your girlfriend will care and corsa's will probably be cheaper so look out for both a buy the best value/condition one!
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Corsa's are generally worse on insurance too, a 1.2 Corsa Sri is still more to insure than my ST at 22 :o
 
Unlike everybody else in this thread I've actually owned both of those :p
a 1.2 petrol Fiesta and a 1.6 Diesel Corsa, I couldn't tell you the year without looking it up but around 2000-03

I drove the Corsa for years, it was basic but fairly reliable and it would tow a massive trailer.
The Fiesta I hated, it was technically the better car but it felt uncomfortable and the handling was awful. Practically it was a lot smaller too.
If you get one (and you probably will), don't put Ditchfinders on it.
 
We've had 3 generations of Corsa from new and the wife owned a 10 year old 1.25 fiesta, besides lacking ac it was a far better car than any Corsa we had.


I've not driven a VXR, but the rest of them are woeful.

Fiesta, hands down

Fiesta handling is great, feels really low down compared to the bubble height Corsa
 
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Fiesta by a huge margin. Corsas are nasty little things. And as said they are stupidly expensive to insure - like shauncr91 a 1.2 Corsa is more expensive for me to insure than my Fiesta ST :)
 
The thing that sticks out in my head about Corsa's from that era were how hilariously crap the steering was, how much the engine rattled and how often I used to hear about how engine management lights used to come on from friends who had one.

The Fiesta was the massively better car.
 
My girlfriend had an 05 plate Corsa which I sold the other month. It was generally quite cheap inside and it seemed to suffer from randomly irritating niggly problems - nothing serious ever went wrong with it but it was often having problems with the handbrake, various sensors, etc.

One thing I did notice though, as mentioned above, is the rust protection. It was absolutely spotless - not a hint of rust anywhere on the entire car.
 
Mercedes dont count, they stopped caring about their cars a long time ago.

As for the Corsa, when i first drove one i remember being a bit worried about how badly it drove, but that seemed to be normal. Then i had a brand new Corsa C as a dis-courtesy car and worried turned into angry that they had the bare faced cheek to palms cars off to the public as an acceptable mode of transport.

The first thing that struck me about the Corsa C (after the clatter of the door shutting) was how far behind you had to reach to get the seat belt from the B post. Considering grannies are a large part of their target audience it felt so poorly thought out
 
bitslice said:
Unlike everybody else in this thread I've actually owned both of those :p
a 1.2 petrol Fiesta and a 1.6 Diesel Corsa, I couldn't tell you the year without looking it up but around 2000-03

I drove the Corsa for years, it was basic but fairly reliable and it would tow a massive trailer.
The Fiesta I hated, it was technically the better car but it felt uncomfortable and the handling was awful. Practically it was a lot smaller too.
If you get one (and you probably will), don't put Ditchfinders on it.
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There was something very very wrong with your fiesta if the handling was awful.
That's the thing that really makes the Fiestas so good. All of the Corsas of the same generation have always been uninvolving and uninspiring to drive. The steering column might as well have been made of rubber for how vague and uncomunicative the steering was in the earlier Corsas. The later generations although better, still fall far short of the standard the Fiestas set.
The willing little petrol engines in the Fiesta are also significantly better to drive than in the Corsa.

When all is said and done however - if you're buying the car for someone who has no interest in how the car drives and just wants a car to get them from A-B, especially if you only have a small budget - then simply buy on price and condition. Both will do the job just fine.
 
I voted Fiesta. My first driving lessons were in a BSM corsa back in 1997 - 1998. I have had a semi-irrational hatred of Corsas ever since.

I will admit that Corsas have improved since then, however.
 
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